Nathan Sobo recently open-sourced Zed, a code editor that focuses on performance, integrates AI capabilities, and supports software teams’ collaboration out of the box. For performance, Zed leverages a Rust code base, multicore- and GPU-optimized code, with a custom Rust GUI framework. For collaboration, Zed relies on CRDTs and team channels. Zed is currently Mac only.
  • tunetardis
    15·
    10 months ago

    I tried it briefly. It certainly is a lot snappier than Atom ever was, I’ll give it that. Seemed to be pretty good with Python, but when I opened some C++ source, it went around reformatting my indentation and replaces tabs with spaces. I will have to see if there is a way to disable all that, as I found it obnoxious.

      • tunetardis
        7·
        10 months ago

        It was more than just tab conversion. For example, it decided on its own that:

        if(...) {
    ...
}
else {
    ...
}

        would look better like:

        if(...) {
    ...
} else {
    ...
}

        I mean I guess I could live with that, but really? I imagine there’s some config where you can disable all this, but it just doesn’t seem worth some giant git commit every time I touch a file with the editor.

        • tunetardis
          6·
          10 months ago

          Ah I think I found it. I need to go:

          {
    "format_on_save": "off"
}
        • Flipper@feddit.de
          3·
          10 months ago

          My guess is that it has that default because they use Rust. Everyone uses rustfmt so everything looks the same and if you always format before a commit you never get massive diffs.

          Most rust projects I’ve seen even have a ci job to check the formatting with rustfmt.